You know Benedict Cumberbatch is the face of Sherlock, but have you ever wondered who writes his lines? You can thank Mark Gatiss and Steven Moffat for that.
Folks, everything that I’ve been reading about memory palace construction and Sherlock’s Method of loci is telling me that this padded psych ward cell isn’t just some symbolic mind-fabrication; it’s an actual place he’s been, somewhere in his past.
“First, mind palaces do exist. People have them. I can’t because I’m not clever enough, but clever people can have them.
You construct it out of spaces you’ve actually been in. You start in a house you live in and you put things in it and then you maybe join it to a theater you know well or something.
So you’ve got a map in your head of places with which you’re familiar. The look of his mind palace would be conditioned by where Sherlock had been.”
